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July 2025

July 3 – The Sandman: Volume 1 (Netflix)

July 11 – Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (Disney+, Premieres on Disney Channel on July 10)

July 16 – The Summer I Turned Pretty (Prime)

July 18 – I Know What You Did Last Summer (Theaters)

July 18 – Eddington (Theaters)

July 24 – The Sandman: Volume 2 (Netflix)

July 25 – Oh, Hi! (Theaters)

July 25 – The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Theaters)

July 31 – Twisted Metal (Peacock)

August 2025

August 1 – Together (Theaters)

August 1 – Naked Gun (Theaters)

August 6 – Wednesday: Part 1 (Netflix)

August 8 – Freakier Friday (Theaters)

August 8 – Weapons (Theaters)

August 22 – Americana (Theaters)

August 29 – The Toxic Avenger (Theaters)

August 29 – The Roses (Theaters)

August 29 – Caught Stealing (Theaters)

September 2025

September 3 – Wednesday: Part Two (Netflix)

September 5 – The Conjuring: Last Rites (Theaters)

September 9 – Him (Theaters)

September 12 – The Long Walk (Theaters)

September 26 – One Battle After Another (Theaters)

September 26 – The Strangers: Chapter Two (Theaters)

October 2025

October 3 – The Smashing Machine (Theaters)

October 17 – The Black Phone 2 (Theaters)

November 2025

November 7 – The Running Man (Theaters)

November 7 – Predator: Badlands (Theaters)

November 14 – Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (Theaters)

November 21 – Wicked: For Good (Theaters)

December 2025

December 5 – Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Theaters)

December 25 – Song Sung Blue (Theaters)

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping some bad sequels into the ol’ VCR.

Okay, before we begin, I feel like this piece requires one of my famous disclaimers: 

The great thing about movies is that we can discuss and debate them. 

Just because I think a movie is great doesn’t make it a good movie, and just because I think a movie is awful doesn’t make it a bad movie. 

Also, making a movie is extremely difficult and incredibly badass, and I don’t want to detract from the process. 

Moving on. 

There are times when the sequels supersede the original movie, a la Terminator 2: Judgement Day. 

But sometimes, sequels just don’t quite hit the same way the original does. 

The subjects of today’s piece fall into the latter. 

Now, here’s the deal: Do movies like Grease 2 have a special place in my heart because they’re high camp? Yes. 

Am I saying that these movies aren’t enjoyable? No. 

They just noticeably pale in comparison to their predecessors. 

I’ve also defended some sequels that are characterized as “bad,” so y’all don’t come for me.  

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are 10 bad sequels that’ll leave you scratching your head: 

• Alien 3
• Grease 2 
• Mean Girls 2
• Highlander 2 
• Batman & Robin
• Pet Sematary Two 
• Jaws: The Revenge 
• Speed 2:Cruise Control
• Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping a new series/the animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer series into the ol’ VCR.

Okay, I’d officially like to submit a new series to the Midnight Society for approval: Perished Pilots, a series where we talk about all the shows that never were. 

And friends, I have a great inaugural entry for you. 

I haven’t been shy about the fact that I grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a kid, and there are still lines my sister and I quote from it to this very day. 

However, I only recently discovered the animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer series that almost was, and we need to talk about it. 

But before we dive in, I need to give a brief disclaimer. 

Joss Whedon is trash, and I don’t condone any of his (alleged) actions. 

I’m only mentioning him here is because the cast said they wouldn’t return to Buffy without Joss Whedon, but most, if not all, of the cast have since condemned him based on all of the things he (allegedly) did. 

As we all know, a Buffy reboot is underway without his involvement, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out. 

Moving on. 

Work on the animated series began in 2001, and the entire cast, except for Sarah Michelle Gellar, had signed on, with Buffy being voiced by Giselle Loren, who had previously voiced the character in other media. 

The original plan was to release the series on Fox Kids*, but when Fox Kids was dissolved, Fox was unable to find another home for it. 

*Note: We’re definitely doing a piece on Fox Kids soon because I forgot how unhinged their programming was. 

Three years later, Fox discussed reviving the series, and a pilot was produced to shop the show to other networks. 

Unfortunately, other studios believed it was too adult for children’s programming, but also couldn’t hold its own with older audiences, so it was never picked up. 

Then, in 2005, Joss Whedon (barf) said the series was officially done for. 

According to an interview with Jeph Loeb in 2009, all of the materials from the series were still in existence, so, in theory, the show could resume production at any time. 

However, as I mentioned earlier, in 2017, the cast said that returning for any reboots or spinoffs would depend on Joss Whedon, who publicly squashed any hopes for new Buffy series when he stated that he was done with Buffy. 

So, it seems like the animated series is dead for the foreseeable future. 

But, Joss Whedon out of the picture, and a reboot on the way, I’m holding out some hope.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the work of Mike Flanagan into the ol’ VCR.

On May 20, 1978, in Salem, Massachusetts (I’m so serious), Mike Flanagan was born. 

He spent his childhood moving around the country until graduating from Archbishop Spalding High School and later graduating Towson University. 

During his studies at Towson University, Mike Flanagan made several student films; however, his early films surprisingly weren’t horror films, but rather leaned towards melodrama. 

Then, in 2003, he directed his first horror film, Ghosts of Hamilton Street, followed by his first horror short film, Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan, in 2006. 

In 2011. Mike Flanagan released Absentia, which went straight to video, but found its audience on Netflix (foreshadowing much?) 

After Absentia’s unexpected success, he finally found a studio (Intrepid Pictures) that agreed to let him shoot a full-length version of Oculus, which hit theaters in 2014. 

From there, Mike Flanagan directed films like Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush, and Gerald’s Game before what’s considered to be mainstream success with his adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. 

After the success of his first show, he went on to release adaptations of Henry James’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, and Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club, as well as his original series, Midnight Mass (my personal fave). 

Mike Flanagan started his own production company in 2024 called Red Room Pictures and joined Amazon Studios, where he currently has TV adaptations of both Carrie and The Dark Tower series in the works. 

Additionally, his latest film, The Life of Chuck, an adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name, releases next month, and his installment for The Exorcist franchise is set to release next March. 

There’s not much more that I can say about Mike Flanagan that hasn’t already been said. 

Mike, if you ever read this, thank you. 🖤

Without further ado, here’s some of my favorite Mike Flanagan content: 

• Midnight Mass 
• The Midnight Club
• Ouija: Origin of Evil
• The Haunting of Bly Manor 
• The Haunting of Hill House

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping game-centric movies into the ol’ VCR.

One thing about me?

I love a good game. 

Be it Werewolf or Candyland, I’ll play ‘em all. 

If you know me, you know I’m a “I just hope everyone has fun” kind of gal. 

But sometimes, games bring out my competitiveness in a way that often surprises people. 

As we know, I’m a big Smosh fan, and I was catching up on some Smosh Games videos when I realized we’ve never talked about game-centric movies. 

These are movies that are either a) based on some sort of game or b) are about some sort of fictional game. 

Either way, the game is crucial to the plot. 

Now, I went back and forth on whether or not to include Ouija-based movies in the list, but I ultimately decided to tackle that subgenre in another piece. 

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are seven of my favorite game-centric movies: 

• Tag 
• Clue 
• Jumanji 
• Game Night 
• Open Graves
• Ready or Not?
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping some of my favorite mermaid content into the ol’ VCR.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in the heyday of paranormal television. 

From Buffy to Charmed, KP and I tuned in to all of our favorites. 

One specific niche of paranormal content that we were particularly fond of (and that was particularly trendy) was what I like to call “crossing-over” content. 

The idea is simple. 

A person is blessed/cursed with a gift to see spirits who have yet to move toward the light and spend the entire episode helping said spirit resolve their unfinished business and cross over, hence the name. 

While these storylines sometimes intermingled with our favorite monster of the week shows, there were handful of shows and movies dedicated to this specific concept. 

And I’ve noticed that crossing-over content is making a resurgence. 

Now, I do have a couple of disclaimers. 

First, I tried to pick content that included multiple spirits. 

I know that shows like Boo Bitch would’ve worked here, but I allowed The Sixth Sense because our boy encounters a myriad of spirits throughout the movie. 

With that being said, I know there’s a case to be made that School Spirits shouldn’t count, BUT a) a good chunk of the story revolves around crossing over, and b) the spirits in the show can possess the bodies of the living, making themselves “seen.” 

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are seven of my favorite pieces of crossing-over content: 

• Medium 
• Not Dead Yet 
• Dead Like Me 
• School Spirits 
• The Sixth Sense 
• Ghost Whisperer 
• Darby and the Dead

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping some of my favorite mermaid content into the ol’ VCR.

With summer just around the bend, I’ve had mermaids on the brain. 

Now, if you’re anything like me and are a child ot the 90s/00s, you were obsessed with Dolphins for most of your childhood. 

However, mermaids also played a pivotal role in my development. 

Over the years, the kid in me still gets a little giddy whenever I see mermaids in content…or reminisce about content from my childhood. 

But, it wouldn’t be a B Movies piece without a little bit of a twist. 

Instead of giving you several straightforward recommendations for mermaid content, I decided to spice things up and throw out some options that may not be as mermaid-forward. 

And yes, you already know there are some horror recs on here. 

That means these movies and shows aren’t all family-friendly, so please do your research before watching any of these. 

I also didn’t want to include The Little Mermaid because it’s just *too* on the nose.

And yes, I understand how ridiculous that sounds. 

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are 10 of my favorite pieces of mermaid content: 

• Hook
• Luca 
• Splash 
• The Lure
• Aquamarine 
• Cabin in the Woods 
• The Thirteenth Year 
• H₂O: Just Add Water
• Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken 
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Hotel 626 and Asylum 626 into the ol’ VCR.

It’s time for another edition of Lost and Refound Media, the series where we discuss lost media that probably feels like a fever dream. 

I had totally forgotten about the subject of today’s piece until Loey Lane covered it in a video a couple of months ago. 

And as both a horror and marketing girlie, I knew that I had cover it, too. 

That’s right, friends. 

We’re covering Hotel 626 and Asylum 626, the spooky flash games Doritos created to promote the re-release of two different discontinued chip flavors. 

The games could only be played from 6:00 p.m to 6:00 a.m. (aka how the name 626 came to be) and guided users through both a haunted hotel and asylum. 

Hotel 626 came first on Halloween 2008 with Asylum 626 following on Halloween 2009. 

In Hotel 626, players fought their way through a haunted hotel, while Asylum 626 forced players to try to survive inside a cursed asylum. 

As far as I can tell, these games were pretty well received by players before ultimately being taken down around 2011. 

For years, the games seem to be forgotten (so I don’t feel as bad), but over the past year or so, they’ve become a popular topic of discussion in lost media. 

I also have good news and bad news. 

While the games themselves are no longer playable, you can find playthrough footage of Hotel 626. However, footage of Asylum 626 seems practically nonexistent. 

I was able to find a video or two of what appears to be gameplay, but it’s either really shaky or doesn’t seem to depict the game in its entirety. 

So, unfortunately, this piece really is an example of lost and refound media. 

I also love that we’re starting to see more brands revert to unique marketing tactics like we saw in the 90s and 00s, ranging from Jack in the Box’s horror short to the cryptic footage released for Weapons. 

I want to do another piece about guerilla marketing, so I’m not going to dive into in here, but the way you market your product DOES matter. 

Think about how memorable the marketing was for The Blair Witch Project. 

It would probably still be one of my favorite movies without the marketing tactics, but the marketing takes things up a notch. 

I want to see return to guerilla marketing, and researching these games only amplified my yearning. 

While we have a pieces of both lost and refound media today, I think one thing is super clear:

Other brands need to take Doritos’s lead.

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Bring Her Back into the ol’ VCR.

Okay, so here’s the deal: 

I really, really want to talk about Bring Her Back today, but I also know that I was fortunate to catch an early screening last night, so I don’t want to spoil it for everyone. 

So, I’ve decided to give you a quick review that I’m keeping as spoiler-free as possible. 

Then, whenever the movie hits theaters, I’ll give you a more in-depth breakdown because this is one I want to pick apart (in a good way). 

Bring Her Back is one of my favorite movies of the year, but let me be clear—this movie isn’t for the faint of heart (or stomach). 

It’s like Talk to Me on steroids. 

Really. 

I can’t even begin to CW/TW all of the gore in here because I wouldn’t know where to start, but I can give you the following CW/TWs: 

Child ab*s*, gaslighting, violence toward children, animal gore, insinuated violence toward animals, death, grief, child death, and all like topics 

One criticism I’ve seen from a couple of early reviews is that the Philippou brothers are, once again, choosing grief as the basis for the film. 

But the portrayal of grief in Talk to Me is much different than that in Bring Her Back. 

We’ll dive a lot more into this in my second review, but grieving an abuser is far different than other types of grief, in my opinion (as someone who has experienced it twice). 

Do I think Bring Her Back is perfect?

No, but I think there’s a lot of really great symbolism for us to dissect. 

I know that this probably isn’t the review that all of you were looking for, but I just can’t bring myself to spoil this truly disturbing (yet somehow touching?) depiction of grief. 

Emphasis on disturbing. 

(The guy sitting next to me whispered, “God fucking damnit” to himself no less than four times).

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Final Destination: Bloodlines into the ol’ VCR.

I’m not gonna bury the lede on this one…

Final Destination: Bloodlines RULES. 

In fact, it’s one of my faves of the entire franchise. 

But let’s back up. 

If you missed our Final Destination recap last week, here’s a quick rundown of the franchise: 

In every film, one unfortunate soul receives a premonition of a deadly event right before it happens, manages to save themselves and a handful of others, and then has to fight alongside the survivors to defeat Death’s design. 

Oh yeah, and all of the kills are unhinged. 

As far as the FD universe goes, we’ve learned that the events of Final Destination 5 set off the chain in the first Final Destination, and throughout the franchise, we’ve learned that you can only defeat the chain in two ways: 

1. By killing someone else and inheriting the time they had left 
2. By flatlining and being brought back 

However, we’ve had a couple of unanswered questions, including the true identity of Tony Todd’s character. 

But Final Destination: Bloodlines does an excellent job of tying up some loose ends. 

The film follows Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) as she tries to find the cause of her horrific recurring nightmare and discovers how her family is tethered to the other events of the franchise. 

And, y’all, it’s a bloody good time. 

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: 2025 is the year of the horror comedy. 

The previous films have some comedy to them, but Final Destination: Bloodlines fully leans into the absurdity, much to its benefit. 

Additionally, Richard Harmon’s Erik is an absolute scene stealer and one of my favorite characters to come out of the entire series. 

It also made my heart so happy to see how full the theater was (and has been) for a Final Destination movie. 

If you’re a fan of this franchise, I hope you’re as pleased with this entry as I am. 

(And that you also spent the ride home from the theater watching every single thing you passed like a hawk)

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the Final Destination series into the ol’ VCR.

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by the Final Destination series! 

As most of you know, horror movies don’t bother me. 

But, by god, have the Final Destination movies made me think twice about common, everyday objects becoming death traps. 

In honor of the sixth installment of the franchise, Final Destination: Bloodlines, hitting theaters this week, I decided to rewatch all of its predecessors so that I can give you a little Joe Bob Briggs-esque recap. 

And yes, I had way more fun with this than I should have. 

I should also probably CW/TW these movies, but I’m not exactly sure how. 

These movies are extremely gory, but they’re so over the top that I have a lot of friends who don’t typically do horror or gore but love this series.

With that in mind, I’ll just give our traditional disclaimer to research these movies before watching and/or to have a trusted person watch first. 

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, and that’s what you missed on Glee Final Destination: 

Final Destination

• The survivors of Flight 180 learn about Death’s Design, which bears a striking resemblance to a deranged Rube Goldberg machine. 
• Ali Larter also contributed to my gay awakening. 
• Key terms: train tearing, electrical endings, shower strangulation, mug murder, bus blunders, tetanus threats, sign splitting, Parisian peril 

Final Destination 2

• After narrowly escaping a fatal multi-car crash, the survivors must team up with Clear, the only remaining survivor of the OG crew, to try to cheat death once again. 
• FD2 is also responsible for giving every millennial a lifelong fear of log trucks. 
• Key terms: shirtless frying, gratuitous MapQuest gazing, biker boobies, laughing gas mishaps, sidewalk splatter, death dodging, premonition perils, body BBQ 

Final Destination 3

• You’ll never believe it, but a group of teenagers finds themselves being stalked by Death after evading a deadly roller coaster accident. 
• Ryan Merriman could’ve used The Luck of the Irish, amirite?
• Key terms: tanning bed terror, coaster calamity, drive-thru deadliness, nail gun nightmares, clairvoyant cameras, subway slaughter, immature insults, cranium crushing 

The Final Destination 

• I’m noticing a theme here. After avoiding death at a race track, survivors must try to defeat Death before it’s too late. 
• I miss the days when movies were specifically made as a vehicle for 3D. 
• Key terms: escalator evisceration, race track rowdiness, bench breaking, cowboy chivalry, prophesying pamphlets, car crushing, spine stomping, putrid pools 

Final Destination 5 

• Guess what? After escaping a deadly bridge collapse, a group of survivors must decide whether their lives are worth more than others. 
• The real star of this film is the person who yells, “Call 911!” in the gym after someone is folded in half like a human calzone. 
• Key terms: legendary lore, acupuncture anarchy, LASIK lunacy, gory gymnastics, putrid pileups, cracking concrete, spine snapping, joint jostling, daytime drinking, bashing Buddhas

My current ranking 

Okay, so, y’all are gonna roast me for this one, but as of now, here’s how my ranking stands: 

1, 5, 3, 2, 4

This may change with the addition of Bloodlines because I’m seeing some really good early reviews, but only time will tell. 

My final question 

After rewatching the entire series, there’s only one big question that remains: 

Where do the premonitions come from?

God? Life? A late-night burrito? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one.