The Suspiria remake is coming as is the trailer for Halloween 2018 in this episode’s horror news of the week while Christopher and Doc discuss Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade. Oh, and check out three new killer  contests on the Gruesome Magazine website. Join Dave Dreher, Doc Rotten, Christopher G. Moore, and Vanessa Thompson as we discuss Horror News of the Week and review the latest horror offerings.

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Horror News Radio
Episode 269 — Upgrade
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INTRO:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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• SCARES THAT CARES WEEKEND: August 3 – 5, 2018
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HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

• Halloween Trailer promised to drop on Friday – Blumhouse release promo images
• Suspiria trailer drops… scary? suspenseful? or so-so?
• Brian DePalma announces a return to the genre
• Castle Freak Remake and Lovecraft Universe is coming
• Scream Factory goes on a tear and announces a bevy of must-own new Blu-rays
• Kaya Scodelario joins Sam Raimi and Alexandre Aja’s Crawl to face a deadly combination of hurricanes and alligators
• Blumhouse Television begins with new NBC series Cul-de-sac
• Exclusive from Variety Jared Leto getting his own Joker solo movie

CONTESTS

• Godzilla, Rodan, And Giant Gilla Monsters Invade COMET TV For A Monster Summer Celebration
• Pacific Rim Uprising Blu-Ray Combo Pack Giveaway
• The Strangers: Prey at Night Blu-Ray Combo Pack Giveaway

FEATURE TOPIC: Upgrade

Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.

Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Anastasios, Rosco Campbell

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Which horror film being released this summer will have the highest opening weekend box office gross? Hereditary, Meg, Halloween, The Nun, The Predator

Doc Rotten

Editor-In-Chief / Founder / Podcast Producer at Horror News Radio

Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior.

Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.